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Last Saturday, I had the pleasure of talking with Sam Bushman on his new radio show, Real Estate in Focus. Sam grew up in the real estate industry, pretty much like I did.  His father was a general contractor and Sam spent his childhood summers hauling plywood to the rooftops.  He’s been a real estate investor for 20 years.  He and his wife are loan consultants with Benchmark Home Loan and Commercial Funding in Pleasant Grove , UT.   He also enjoys assisting families with real estate financing and he’s gotten damn good at it too.  Sam is a veteran radio broadcaster as well.  He owned a radio station for ten years and has been an on air talent for even longer.  He has now combined the fields of real estate and radio broadcasting to create, Real Estate in Focus.

We had a really good discussion about the explosion of opportunities for investors in real estate, something I really can’t talk enough about. These days there is, as I’ve noted a few posts back, a certain pessimism about the real estate market in general and perhaps there’s good reason for that. The news as of late is filled with a lot of negativity and there really is no denying the negative circumstances in our economy. I believe it is not enough to just counter that negativity with peppy optimism, thinking that things will eventually get better because it just has to. The key is in looking at the negative information and figuring out how you can use it differently. Then you can actually see the opportunities. Then you can actually start doing something about it!

We discuss all of this in detail during the interview and and if you have the time, you can catch it on Sam Bushman’s site. You can also listen to it here.

Let’s face it folks, times are tough and we can definitely do better than simply putting on a smile and hoping things turn around before all our savings go down the drain. Optimism can only buoy us up for so long but seizing the opportunities that naturally arise from difficult situations takes more than just having a positive outlook. You need to have the will to actually take action as well as the know how to ascertain which actions to take. Once you start taking personal control of your financial situation, then you’ll definitely have something to smile about.

Posted by Lance at 10:38 pm.
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